Happy New Years to all ! Lets start it off with a good thought.
What is it you love about your layout ? Is it a special engine or car? Is it a building or other structure ? Is it the actual building of scenery ? Is it the running of the trains ?
For me, it is the looks on my kids faces when they put together a train and watch it go around the layout. Today we will build some wood/cardboard buildings and decorate them whatever way they want.
What floats your boat ???
[8D][8D] Tim [8D][8D]
I enjoy the fun of loading and unloading cars. Playing with the accesories and trains! Uncoupling cars(hearing a ‘snap’ when they do). Setting up consists. Its all good![:D][:)]
my favorite thing is that I made it myself… the wooden trestles, the Mtns, the tunnel portals , hand cut and painted track ties
Howdy!
The favorite thing about my trains is the escape from the “real” world. When I go down to the basement to work on my layout or run the trains I leave behind any problems with work or issues in life. I try not to take the phone with me- and I don’t think that I would hear it ring over the Railsounds.
Almost all of the trains that I run are “models” of the real trains from my world. Passenger trains that I’ve ridden, steam engines that I’ve chased, and freights that I frequently see rolling across the praries. I can railfan in my own home.
Bob
Less than 25 feet of track (easy to weather and cheaper)
Only 4 switches required (cheaper)
Naturally segmented to depict different scenes (VERY important for me!)
Supports all the control systems
Small table faster and easier to “landscape”
Those were the requirements I had. Yours are different - so do what you want and HAVE FUN!
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I like having double loops so I can have two trains passing in opposite directions. I also like runing multiple trains on one loop without crashing!
I like “watching” - watching the train go around the track - moving the transformer throttel up and down as it goes up the (inadvertent) grades. Watching the rotating beacon light and new WW2 pylon. Also thinking about improvements - and learning to do new things
As most know, mine is temp on carpet in spare bedroom. I just love to run trains and play. I’m 5.8 years old instead of 58. [;)]
The looks on the faces of the kids.
BUCKEYE and CHIEF hit it right on the head, Being a kid again and acting like the ones that come over to play on the layout. Lots o Fun.
Laz 57
After nearly 20 years in the train-free wilderness, my favorite thing about the my layout is the simple fact that I have one at all. Sure, its still in the early stages – plywood, homosote, etc. – but I can now come home from work and run my 1976 Chesapeake Flyer along side more recent TMCC equipment. My wife thinks I’m nuts, but I agree with the rest of you: its fun being a kid again!
I like staring down the tracks into the tunnel and seeing my 4-4-2 (or I think so)
locomotive chugging throungh the tunnel with the whistle blowing and the headlight shining.
It reminds me that I am 11 [:D] ! ! !
Colin
Colin it is awesome to see you on these posts. When I was your age that was my favorite thing to do, except we didn’t have whistles you had to make your own. Wooooooooo Woooooooooo
Good to see you here.
Tim
Thanx Turbo. Good to see you too.
, Colin
Hey Ya’ll
My favourite thing is the trains. I have more fun collecting and operating than building a layout (I haven’t tried it yet, so I might like that better).
I have recently gotten my dad into trains and we have agreed the our collection must have a Postwar 2343 Santa Fe F3 A-A and a set of Postwar Lionel Super Speed Liner cars.
We are planning to build a layout in the 12x18 rec room we are building next to the car port (It wil be connected to the house). The layout will be around the room shelf style and a minimum 9 inches wide and a maximum 18 inches wide.
We got the idea from the Space Saver article in the Feb. 1996 Rec Room Central Layout. The minimum curce radius will be 0-72, like the Rec Room Central, how ever it will be permanent, and have sceanery and backdrops.
In the room there will be a fireplace and a chimney (wich the trains will curve around the chimney on top of the fireplace). Our version of the plan calls for 8 0-72 switches.
Thgrand station will be 2 Ace Trains Canopy Station kits or a Lionel City station.
Nick
It keeps evolving as I try out new experiments. It’s alive!
Why its the beer meister located next to the set, for easy access during those all night wiring projects!
Seriously, it has to be running 3 or 4 trains at once and seeing the neighborhood kids eyeballs pop out at all of the action.
Hey nick, when you get down with the train past the fireplace send a picture.
That sounds great. !
Tim